A quick scan of Shorty’s Twitter handle reveals that Chip’s right-hand man is still very much involved in the Magnolia empire.

In fact, as Chip explained in his book The Magnolia Story, the two were friends and working together long before Fixer Upper hit the airwaves. Shorty was actually one of Chip and Joanna's first Magnolia hires.

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"Some of these employees went way back with us, all the way to the beginning," Chip wrote in the book, according toGood Housekeeping. "Most of the boys who'd helped me with my early flips were still around. You probably know a couple of them — Shorty and Jose — from the show. Without even purposefully trying, we'd created a Magnolia family."